Re: [gentoo-user] kdemultimedia-arts-3.5.10 and the arts flag

[Dale]

Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On Thursday 12 November 2009 16:13:46 Dale wrote:
>
>> Neil Bothwick wrote:
>>
>>> On Thu, 12 Nov 2009 07:09:13 -0600, Dale wrote:
>>>
>>>> Calculating dependencies... done!
>>>> [ebuild   R   ] kde-base/kdelibs-3.5.10-r6  USE="acl alsa cups fam
>>>> jpeg2k spell tiff (-arts) -avahi -bindist -branding -debug -doc
>>>> -kdehiddenvisibility -kerberos -legacyssl -lua -openexr -utempter" 0 kB
>>>> [1]
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> So, portage is ignoring my USE flags. Do I need a hammer for this to
>>>> work?  Is this me or what?  I'm confused.
>>>>
>>> The arts use flag has been masked, that why it is parenthesised.
>>>
>>> % grep arts /usr/portage/profiles/base/use.mask
>>> # Mask USE arts. Deprecated. Remove this entry when kdelibs-3 is out of
>>> tree.
>>> arts
>>>
>>> You need to add -arts to /etc/portage/profile/use.mask
>>>
>> While I was searching with Google, it is said this can be gotten rid of
>> which I don't mind doing.  As long as the sound works, which others says
>> it does, then I'm fine without it.  When I disable it, or remove it from
>> make.conf, it won't re-emerge anything when I run emerge -uvDN world.
>> The key part being the -N of course.
>>
>
> arts was a disgusting piece of crap that never should have been suffered to
> live. You never needed it then and you certainly don't need it now. It's been
> abandoned for many years now (at least 4?)
>

Well, if it would let me ditch it, I would ditch it.  I guess it is KDE 
that wants this thing so badly.  I dunno.

>
>
>> Anyway, I don't have that file so do I just create it?  Is it sort of
>> like a package.unmask file?
>>
>
> Yes. It's your locally defined USE flag mask, identical in purpose to the one
> the devs place into your profile
>
>

I echo'd it in and it is rebuilding stuff as we speak.  Maybe it will 
work when all this gets done.

Thanks.

Dale

:-)  :-)